RAY CHARLES - Debut Album (Reissue w/ 3 Bonus tracks) - LP - 180g Red Vinyl [OCT 10]

LP - Limited 20th Century Masterworks Edition 180g Red Vinyl featuring the original album + 3 bonus tracks. Contains newly prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton.

Presented here is Ray Charles' sensational debut LP compiled from Atlantic singles dating back as far as 1953, during Charles' most inspired years. The pieces on this recording, most of them written by Charles himself, included perennial hits such as "I've Got a Woman", "Hallelujah I Love Her So", "Ain't That Love", "Mary Ann", "A Fool for You", and "Drown in My Own Tears".

Of the 3 bonus tracks, "Hit The Road Jack", written by Percy Mayfield, is from 1961 and released by ABC Records.

Tracklist: 

Side 1
1. Ain't That Love
2. Drown In My Own Tears
3. Come Back Baby
4. Sinner's Prayer
5. Funny (But I Still Love You)
6. Losing Hand
7. Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I) *
8. Hit The Road Jack *

Side 2
1. A Fool For You
2. Hallelujah I Love Her So
3. Mess Around
4. This Little Girl Of Mine
5. Mary Ann
6. Greenbacks
7. Don't You Know
8. I've Got A Woman
9. I Believe To My Soul *

* = Bonus tracks